b. 1975 in British Columbia / Lives and works in Montreal, Canada

Canadian artist Erin Shirreff's practice encompasses photography, sculpture, and video. Across all media, her work is fundamentally image-based, and her practice is rooted in the studio and in the process: material translations from two to three dimensions, from analog to digital, and vice versa.

Her body of work is interconnected, auratic, and possesses a monumental and durational quality. It explores the artist’s curiosity about different modes of attention. Through her work, Shirreff encourages viewers to look and look again, as galleries and museums are spaces that enable us to think without a script. She explains, “I use art as subject matter because art is an object of contemplation, and in the end, that—contemplation, thinking through looking—is what I’m most curious about.”

Recent solo exhibitions of her work have been held at Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin (2025); SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico (2024); the Clark Art Institute, Massachusetts (2021–22); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California (2019); Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2016); Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York (2016); and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts (2015). Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Nouveau Musée National de Monaco; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut, among others.